Myers Concrete is installing curb and guard rail for another Railroad Crossing Quiet Zone.
This keeps drivers from going around barricades and allows the railroad to turn off the horns when trains are approaching.”
The City of Goldthwaite has been another great small town in Texas to work for.
Myers Concrete is moving along well with the Hidden Valley River Crossing in Wimberley. This is the last bridge to be replaced from the Memorial Day Flood of 2015.
This drone picture shows the construction of the first half of the crossing.
Myers Concrete is part of the new Engineering Building at Texas State University. We will be installing the walls of the vaults at the new building under General Contractor Young & Pratt. Texas State is very special to many of us and we are thrilled that they are building the Engineering
program.
Myers Concrete has done the final concrete pour at the Ponciana Park project in Southeast Austin. We built retain walls for the playground, decorative curved concrete benches and sidewalks. We are proud to be a part of this project that Austin families will enjoy.
The River Road project in Wimberley is ahead of schedule and due to open in the next couple of days. The project includes the stamped wall, the stamped concrete rip rap, and cut boulders installed for side of road. This is a major improvement for River Road which was severely damaged by the Memorial Day Flood in 2015. Myers Concrete is proud to be a part of this project in our hometown.
Myers Concrete is building a wall for TxDOT as a subcontractor under Dan Williams Company at the intersection of Mopac and 360 in Austin. The wall will allow them to widen 360 Southbound. Myers Concrete is proud to be a part of this project that will help with traffic problems in Austin.
Residential project in Wimberley recently completed with concrete walls and
steps to create a modern and functional terrace in the front yard. The
landscaping will add more dimension and features to this home.
It’s not often that public works asks a contractor for a change order. But when he saw how well his first roller-compacted concrete (RCC) pavement project went, asking the city council to spend $150,000 now to save millions on future maintenance was a no-brainer for former San Angelo, Texas, City Engineer Clinton Bailey.
His gamble apparently paid off. The following year the city council tripled public works’ budget to $1.68 million. Although it was a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $150 million needed to fully rebuild 30% of the city’s streets and roads, it was still enough to kick-start maintenance that had been postponed during the Great Recession.
“RCC makes sense financially,” Bailey said in an interview on the city’s in-house news program. He’s now public works director for the City of Fredericksburg, Texas. “We won’t see the potholes and cracks that need sealing; these roads will never need a sealcoat. We can take the streets we’re rebuilding with RCC off our maintenance schedule and allocate those dollars elsewhere.”
Since those two 2011 projects, the Texas DOT developed a special specification and is overseeing its first RCC project, a safety rest area (the alternative was continuously reinforced concrete pavement).
When Jerry Morales became the City of Midland’s first Hispanic mayor in late 2013, one of his top priorities was finishing a road rebuild that business owners had long grown weary of. Almost two miles of a cracked, pitted, and potholed four-lane asphalt arterial required complete reconstruction. While that’s the ideal opportunity to fix and install other public works assets like water and wastewater mains, manholes, sidewalks, and traffic lights, all that work takes time.
By the time the final paving phase rolled around almost three years later, Morales wanted Lamesa Road open to traffic ASAP. Reece Albert Inc., the same RCC contractor San Angelo used, completed the job in two phases between May and June 2014. Each phase lasted about a week and the pavement was carrying traffic 48 hours after placement.
Source: Public Works Magazine (www.pwmag.com)
